They turn a profit by contracting their services out to governments and businesses

lower rates because it’s a bigger pool of purchasing power

You’re so close to getting it

Whitney Houston =/= Mariah Carey

It’s all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you’re doing, is almost never correct. There’s always nuance.

So you decide to complain about it on a thread where that isn’t happening, instead of celebrating the thing you’ve been waiting for?

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I’m not getting mad, and it doesn’t seem like anyone calling the meme out for being censored is mad either. The top comment in this thread used the “fuck” word in an excessive, tongue-in-cheek manner to poke fun at the censored meme, not to express real anger.

The one getting mad seems to be you. We’re pointing out that we don’t want to see corporate censorship on our corporate-free platform, which seems pretty reasonable. But you’re getting mad at people calling out that corporate censorship.

You may be right that it doesn’t really matter, and posting these shitty memes does more good than harm for engagement on the platform. But I don’t think you can honestly argue that posting uncensored memes, or taking a couple minutes to toss the image in paint and decensor it, is some monumental, unreasonably difficult task that the people who… checks notes spend all day scrolling social media for memes can’t possibly take on.

Doesn’t have to be censored here though. Reposting shitty censored memes from shitty platforms that require censoring is absolutely bait.

Yeah that’s a neat analogy, but it breaks down when you realize that the landlord is supposedly all good, all knowing, and all powerful. If a being with those properties makes a system that can go to shit, or needs to be “fixed”, then he either made it that way on purpose and is a monster, or he isn’t all knowing and all powerful. Either way, not worth worshipping in my opinion.

Whole wheat berries last a good long while if stored in an airtight container. But ground wheat berries oxidize and spoil really fast, unless you filter out the bran and the germ, which I very much doubt ancient people were bothering to do. And lean bread only lasts a couple days before either molding or going rock hard. Basically what I’m saying is that grinding up flour and making it into bread is actually a pretty shit method of preservation, we’d be better off just eating a porridge made from whole wheat berries, and I bet bread stuck around just because it’s friggin delicious.

Yeah it would have been way easier for the apparently all good, all knowing, all powerful god to just, you know, forgive us, but that wouldn’t have made for a good book

A ban isn’t “un-personing” someone, it’s a temporary restriction on their engagement with one particular community, as a consequence for bad behavior. If that restriction doesn’t actually happen though, it doesn’t seem like a very effective consequence.

my grandmas cinci style chili

You wanna hook us up with the recipe, or is that one a tightly guarded secret?

It was enshittified into that. A decade ago, it was a perfectly fine option for people that wanted a more convenient, hassle-free way to share and collaborate on code

I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.

Of course Starbucks roasts dark in part because they’re cheap, but it’s mostly to ensure the flavor is consistent across all their thousands of stores. Roast any bean to the level Starbucks roasts it, and it doesn’t matter what the origin, fermentation method, species, or terroir was, they all come out tasting the same. Granted, most people aren’t going to enjoy that taste by itself, but that’s sort of beside the point. Starbucks coffee isn’t really intended to be enjoyed straight, it’s supposed to be made into milk drinks where the dairy, syrups, and toppings provide most of the flavor, and for that use case, it’s adequate.

I can’t drink coffee anywhere else anymore

That’s an absolute shame, because there’s tons and tons of cool coffee shops absolutely all over the place doing really cool, interesting, imaginative, and downright tasty things with coffee that you’re missing out on.

I’ve gone most years since like 2020, and 2024 was the only year it was super muddy

Saw these guys at Louder than Life in 2024. It was muddy as fuck because it basically monsooned the day before, and was still drizzling on and off that day. I was soaked to the bone, covered in mud up to my thighs, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Definitely one of the funnest, most high energy performances of the whole weekend.

So you’re reduced to playing semantic games and trying to claim I’m a liar. You’re continuing to mischaracterize the difficulty involved in installing things on a Linux system. You’re evidently walking back your claim that there are distros/package managers that lack a graphical package manager. Your only example of a desktop distro lacking a graphical package manager out of the box (but still has the ability to install one) is Arch, a niche distro intended for advanced users with Linux experience. And you continue to stubbornly refuse to elaborate any of your points unless I pull it out of you.

Suffice it to say, I’m not convinced. Have a great day, I’m no longer taking part in this exhausting conversation.

It is miniscule, objectively. Generously, less than 2% of personal computer users have an Adobe license. The alternatives aren’t inferior, in fact in some cases (blender, DaVinci Resolve), the “alternative” I listed is actually the industry standard used instead of the comparable Adobe product. There are multiple ways to make it easier to transition away from Adobe products, and you keep just conveniently ignoring the fact that cloud versions of most Adobe products are available. It’s a bad example, and does nothing for the argument you’re trying to make.

Can you share some distros/package managers that don’t have a GUI available? You originally claimed there were distros where a graphical package manager wasn’t an option. Are you walking that back now, or can you actually substantiate that claim?

Can you share some distros intended for desktop use that don’t come with a graphical package manager?

I’m sorry you found Nobara’s package management tools confusing. Is that the experience you’re basing this whole opinion on?